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Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between hypnosis and psychoanalysis, showing how the theories and experimental techniques of hypnosis paved the way for the familiar psychoanalytic setting established by Freud. This title addresses the distinctive features of Freud's psychoanalytic setting.
Trade Review"There are few people with such deep knowledge of the early career of Sigmund Freud as Andreas Mayer, and probably no Freud scholar with his grasp of the history of science and medicine in late nineteenth-century France, Austria, and Germany. Here Mayer couples great erudition with methodological innovations drawn from recent science studies to skillfully reexamine the key sites and experimental cultures of hysteria, hypnosis, and early psychoanalysis. Sites of the Unconscious is a tour de force that marks an important advance in our understanding of the origins of psychoanalysis." (Robert M. Brain, University of British Columbia)"
